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The Van Wert times. (Van Wert, Ohio), 1887-04-29

The Van Wert times. (Van Wert, Ohio), 1887-04-29 page 1

ttt The Van Wert Printing Company. One column, one year $100 00 One-half column, one year SO 00 One-quarter column, one year 30 00 One-eighth column, one year IS 00 LEGAL NOTICES. One square, first insertion $1 00 Each subsequent insertion : SO Nine lines of nonpareil type constitute a square Executor and Administrator's Notices, III " . advance - S 00 This Times in devoted to the advancement of Democratic principles, and to the general and local news. - OFFICE: First Floor, No. 1 (South Washington Street. Terms of Subscription. One year, strictly in advance $1 50 Six months T5 Three months . 50 v. JOB PRINTING Of every description executed in the best style, promptly and on reasonable terms. LOCAL NOTICES. (In Minion type), ten cents per line each insertion. . , VOL 21. VAN WERT, OHIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1887. NO. 3R. .t EAL ESTATE FOR SALE. MONEY TO LOAN NO DEL&T. CALL ON B. PARKER. SIDLES RESTAURANT AT THE OLD STAND, South Washington St ., Tan Wert NEW IB OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. I HAVE money curity, in funds of : to loan, on real estate se- from 1200 to 15000. No.Sil. Residence property in Van Wert situated in a good neighborhood, only two squares from center of town. Price H00. Terms one-half cash and balance in one and two years. No. 202. OA ACRES of land; 1 miles from Scott, on UU the C, J. JH. itv. i-riee fizuu, wun one third cash and balance in 1 and 2 years, or win exchange for property in Van Wert. Call soon for a bargain. No. 513. FOR SALE FOR A SnORT TIME. rt A f :res of line imnroved land ioinine the I UU corporation of Van Wert can be had at a bargain if taken soon. . . No. 515. FINE residence property well located in Van Wert., Will exchange for land or sell cheap for cash. ' No.512. A i ACRES of land, partly improved, and bal-TtU ance in fine timber, situated Hi miles from -C., J. & M. Ry. Price $800. Terms easy or wiH exchange for property in Van Wert or for other town property. No. 514. FINE vacant lot centerallv located in Van Wert. Price for 10 days $350, all cash. No. 320. npk ACRES of land, nearly all cleared, joining Ol the coporation of Van Wert. Will sell cheap. Call at office for particulars. No. 422. WILL BE OPENED ON THURSDAY, HARCII 24. It will be better fiimihfl mid better adapted to the wants of the trade, both town and country, than STAPLE AND FANCY To the Public in General, Ladies in Particulars WARM MEALS AND LUNCH! at All Honrs. Special Care will be taken to accommodate Farmers. MONEY TO LOAN ! On Improved Farms for a term of Years Highest For particulars call on or address SPITKR A CO., BARKERS. TOLEDO, OHIO. s All New and Well Selected. Market Price Produce. Paid for 1 Hfi ACRES of land in Union township, Van J DU Wert county, Ohio. Land can lie easily cleared and divided up into 20 acre tracts with TX2wX2 T A TVr,iTi, Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Ry. Schedule in effect January 30, 1887. . Trains depart from V an Wert Station, We will sell goods as cheap as you can get them for at any other place, because we are bound to build up a trade. ' First-Class Dry Goods and Notion Souse road to each. Situated 6 miles from an w ert in good neighborhood one-half mile from rail road. Price $25 per acre, terms reasonable. No. 600. Orv "ACRES, situated only 29 miles from QJ - Van Wert, O. This is a line Improved farm with 65 acres under cultivation and balance in woods-pasture; well fenced and un-derdrained; good outlets for tile draining; story frame house of 8 rooms, conveniently ar ranged and in good repair; fp.ir out-buildings; Toune bearinE orchard of 90 apple trees, also- a number of pear, cherry and other fruit trees; rood wason road on the north: eood neighbor hood; mile from school. Price $4000, with 11500 cash and balance in 1, 2 and 8 years. No. 505. 1-f V ACRES in Van Wert county. Ohio, 4 L V miles from Cavett and 8 miles from Van Wert, the county seat. This farm has 80 acres under cultivation and balance is timber, all un-derbrushed except 10 acres, all well fenced; creek crosses one corner of farm ; good outlet for ditches; about 600 rods of underdraining; will put 800 rods of tile in ground this spring (1887); hewed-log house, weather-boarded, of 7 rooms; hewed-log barn with sheds on sides and room for 10 head of horses and hay; smoke house, milk house, wood house and other out buildings; 2 good wells of water with pumps; young orchard of 50 trees, also 20 old trees now bearing; convenient to school and churches; food roads on north ana east lines, l rice $uuu 'arms 11000 cash and balance in easy payments, - Or will sell 40 acres, all cleared, containing the buildings, for $1800. Or, will exchange the whole farm on a cash basis for 80 acres, situated from 4 to 6 miles from Van Wert. No. 505. '- Q f ACRES, in Union township, Van Wert O J county, Ohio, has 40 acres under cultiva- I tion and underdrained with tile. The entire 80 Is fenced. It has a 1V story log house, log stable, fine well of water and some fruit. This farm has a good wagon road on the south and the C, J. & M. Ry. on the east; is mile from school and only 3 miles from Van Wert, the county seat. Price, 93,800. with f 1,000 casn Dai-ance in 1, and 8 years Interest 8 per cent. NO. 841 Is a desirable residence property, situated al most within a stone's throw of the court house in Van Wert, and needs to be seen to be appreciated. The house contains eieht rooms, con veniently arranged, summer kitchen and wood house: fine well and cistern water in abun dance. The lot also contains a choice variety of fruit. It has a good brick walk and fine shade trees in front, an alley on side and in the rear. Price, $1,400. $700 cash and balance in 1 - and 2 years with interest at 6 per cent. : . J. B. PARKER, ' VAN WEBT, 0. on Central (90th Meridian) time, which twenty-two minutes slower than Van Wert time, as follows : GOING WEST. Is COME and SEE US Mail Accommodation . Express Local 11 16 AH 5 45 PM 12 24 AM 11 16 AM GOING EAST. Mail Express Fast Line ...... Express Local 3 13 PM 8 10 AM 8 51 PM T 2 36 AM 11 16 AM Daily. Daily except Sunday. Pullman Palace Sleeping and Hotel Cars at- tatched to through trains run without extra charge, west-bound to Chicago; east-bound to nttsDurgn, uarriBDurg, .Baltimore, Washington. Philadelphia and New York. For time-tables, rates of fare, through ticKetb and baggage checks and further information regarding the running of trains, applv to dUli-IN VAS .LilCW, Ticket Aeent. Van Wert. Ohio. JAMES MoCREA. E. A. FORD. uen'i manager. uen. rass. ana xiCK't Agt. PITTSBURGH, PA. TIME 1 A TTT iTi, Cincinnati, Jackson & Mm Ry, . in enect juarcn iu, ami. Central Standard Time, 22 minutes slower than van Wert time. ALLEN & V1SMAN O AIL 2 Call and see the quality sold ALL SCREENED BEFORE DELIVERY. LOWEST MARKET PRICE. GOING SOUTH. No. 3 No. 1 " ' " " P. M. A. M. Cecil , 2 40 Paulding.... 3 02 '. Latty S 12 ...... ..... Van Wert ..... 3 45 5 00..... Shanes Crossing . . 4 30 5 36 .... . Celina 4 86 6 08 ..... Greenville .v. .........;... 6 20 7 16 Manchester 7 06 7 50 West Alexandria . . 7 60 8 85 Yard corner Jackson and Market streets. GEO. W. BEERS. GOING NORTH. NO. 2 Cecil ....... Pauldine Latty van wert.. Shanes Crossing . . Celina Greenville Manchester West Alexandria . No. 4 P. M 1 23 12 55 12 42 11 25 10 801 10 05 8 28 7 35 6 40l P. M. 9 50 9 15 8 54 7 27 6 49 6 00' Remember that KUPKIGHT BROS. . is the place to buy your SBOTTllE PHYSICIANS. T. HAWKINS, M. . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office at the old place over McKim & Co's. store formerly the office of Drs. Christopher & ilan-Una Van Wert. Ohio. Will respond promptly to all professional calls. Office hours from 7 to 11 in the forenoon and from 1 to 4 In the afternoon. Residence, 47 South Washington street. Dec. 3, 1886. W. H. CHBISTOPHMt. G. J. EBLEN. I Dra. CHRISTOPHER EBLEN TVWVRTCTANS AND SURGEONS. Office. JT Cahn's new building, opposite the Court House, van wert, unio. Pmmnt uttftntlnn inven io all calls. Special Office days fo. treatment, of Eye and Ear Diseases will be Tuesdays and Saturdays. Dr. Christopher's residence, 82 South Washington street. Dr. Eblen's residence. South street, near Union school building. CEO. W. HcGATBEK, M. ., TT-rtrrsiCIAN AND SURGEON. Disea J: women and diseases or nose and throat a specialty. Office hours for treatment of above - diseases. 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. W eanesaays ana Sntnrdavs. Office over No.2North Washil street. Residence 22 Jeffersoi H. R. JOHNSTON. Gen. Pass. Ant. J. M. C. MARBLE, Pres. and Gen. Man. DHO 13 UNACQUAINTED WITH THH GEOGRAPHY OF TMS COUNTRY WILL SEE BY EXAMINING THIS MAP THAT THB 3B3&E We also pay the HIGHEST CASH PniCE FOR CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAKD & PACIFIC RAILWAY GOOD TIMOTHY HAY You will do well to give us a call RUPRIGHT BROS. ngton t. May 22-ly. WH. N. LOSdSnOBTH, H. . "OHYSICI AN AND SURGEON, has resumed JL the practice of medieine. All calls prompt ly attended to. Office, Convoy, u. junes-ta ATTORNEYS. . . . CLEH. V. UOKE. A TTORNEY-AT-LAW. VAN WERT. O. . Office with Alexander & Darnell. Does a general Law and Notary business. . Prompt at tention given to conveyancing and ma&ing aD- stracts oi tinea. jlcc. a, 1000. HA1.TCUABKB K GLENN. A TTORNETS-AT-LAW. VAN WERT. O. X3u Practice in the courts of Van Wert coun-tv. Onllections nromntlv made and remitted. Partition, probate and litigated business solic ited, conveyance done at reasoname rates. ji- flee on McCurdy's corner. Sept. 19-79. A HORACE O. HICHIB. TTORNEY-AT-LAW, VAN WERT, O., umce over tx. v w oiney 's store. W.J. BEERS. A TTORNEY-AT-LAW, VAN WERT, O., r will nromntlv attend to all business en trusted to his care, in Van Wert and other counties. Office above Clark & Son's shoe store, In Arcade Block. ALEXANDER A DABHBLL. A TTORNEYS-AT-LAW. VAN WERT. O.. Office in Van Wert County Bank building. Particular attention given to making col lections. BARBERS. J. A. Baib. J. J. Ehresman. BAIB 4t EHHEBHAK, TTJOPULAR BARBERS AND HAIR DRESS- I era. For a smooth shave or a neat hair cut, give us a call. 2d door south of Pittsburg depot, on n asmngion street. D. C0LIIN8. Wm. Perbt. COLLINS PERRY. tPASHIONABLE BARBERS AND HAIR Dressers. First door north of McConahy's only true middle link In that transcontinental system -which invites and facilitates travel and traffic in either direction between tho Atlantio and Pacific. The Kortt island mam line ana orancnes memde Cnl- joiiec uttawa. L.aHaiie. feona. tieneseo. Hnllna ana kock xsiana. ua. uiuwis; vureapon, nnscaune. Washington, Fairfteld, Ottnmwa, OskalooBa, West Liberty. Iowa City, Des Moines, Indianola, Winterset, Atlantic, KnoxTille, Audubon, Harlantiuthrle Centre and Conned BluffStin Iowa; Gallatin, Trenton. Bt. Joseph. Cameron and Kansas City, in Missouri: Leavenworth and Atchison, m Kansas; AiDeniea, uuuieapoua and St. Paul, in Minnesota; Watertown. in Dakota, and nunareas or. lntermeaiate ciliu, wwju uu villages. The Great Rook Island Route (liMntntftM Kneed. Comfort and Safetv to those who travel over It. Its roadbed is thoroughly ballasted. Its tracK 13 OI neavy uvet-i. ib uriu$ea r boiiu Bbrucrarea rtf bmn .nil Imn. Tta rnllinir stock is Derfect as human kr-i i f.m mnirn ic ieou aiixneaaioiv aooiiances uui mechanical eenins has invented and experience proved valuable. 1X3 practical operation is conservative ana methodical its discipline strict and exacting. The lux ury ol its passenger accommodation is uneauaieu in the West unsurpassed in the world. All lxnress muu Decween iiiicuku mu ljiw jnissonn ITiver consist of Comfortable Day Coaches. magnhVent IMiiman roiace Y arior ana sieepmg ijara, eiegant Dining Cars providing excellent meals, and between Chicago. St. Josepn, Atcbuon aaaMWW vuy rase liecllmng Chair Cars. The Famous AiDert Lea Route Is the direct, favorite line between Chicacro and Minne apolis and St. Paul. Over this route solid Fast Express Trains run daily to the summer resorts, picturesque localities and hunting and fishing grounds of Iowa and Minnesota. The rich wheat fields and grazing lands of interior Dakota are reached via Watertown. A short, desirable route, via Seneca and Kankakee, offers budo- rior inducements to travelers between Cincinnati, In dianapolis, Lafayette ana council israiis, bt. josepn. Atcmson, Leavenwortn, Kansas ity, Minneapolis, be. Paul and intermediate points, ah classes or patrons, especially families, ladies and children, receive from officials and emnloves of Rock Island trains m-otection. respectiui courtesy ana Kinaiy treatment or riciceis. mans, r oiaers oonunauie as an nrmciDai Ticket Offices in the United States and Canada or any THE EDISON IMAL OPERATING WITH THE Baltimore At Ohio Xeleirrnpli Company, receive and tiansmit messoge to and from all points, at LOWEST KATES. Itag St WELCOME ! p NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. and the We kindly request you to call and see - that neither pains nor expense has been spared to make our advent among you all that the most exacting could expect. Our intention is to have you realize to the fullest extent that our establishment is a "We shall introduce all novelties as soton as they are shown in Metropolitan Cities, matters not be they European ordomestic. Our pride shall be to have always the cream of the markets, at Prices That will be Correct, while honest dealing shall be our first motive and characterize our every action. We will guarantee te every visitor that genuine courtesy which makes a customer feel at home when they enter a business house. We feel confident that you will be pleased with our methods of doing business, for our terms will be C3. to and no deviation. We shall have OH6 price in plain figures and no abatement to any one. Our facilities for doing business are not excelled by any firm in this country, belonging to a syndicate who purchase in very large quantities direct only from manufacturers and importers, and ever ready to avail ourselves of a good opportunity to secure reliable goods at low prices for cash, and thus being always in the market our stock will be fresh and clean and we shall have Bucyras lately voted down a City Hall proposition. The new Board of Trade at Lima has started off with 125 members. The Washington C. H. Council has unanimously passed a prohibitoryor-dinanca St Marys has drilled in the third big gas well It is on the Clarke farm one half mile south-east of town. Findlay's reference to Fostoria as "our enterprising suburb" must be intensely aggravating to the Hon. Charles Foster and other localboomers. Hamlin Miller Attempts to Ford the Auglaize River. His Wile and Child Drowsed and He Narrowly Escape. A WATERY GRAVE. CONVOY. Two Htriti Drowned lag Flood. in Ike Raff- n Sopiethipg jSlew Every Day. desired information, address. S. R. CABLE. E.ST. JOHN, CHICAGO. f. A. H0LBR00IL TRAVEL VIA Through Train mtth DMng Cora, Pullman Palact Sleep ing uars. Modern Coaches. Sure connections In Union Depots at its terminal points. with trains from and to the East West. North and South. Cheapest, Best and Quickest FiiTJiHii ; r Route from Chicago, Peoria LOUIS io or St i DENVER. SAN FRANCISCO, OMAHA, KANSAS CITY, CITY QF MEXICO, ST. PAUL. MINNEAPOLIS. PORTLAND, ORE. ST. JOSEPH, AIUHISON. For Tickets, Rates, Maps. Ac., apply to Ticket Agents of connecting lines, or address i.a.ruiiLtt, n.D.aiunc, isty.r. a.m. PAUL MORTON, u. r. a i. a. Van Wert office in Melsheimer Drug Store. All patrons will receive prompt attention, and with strict con- ndence. L. MELSHEIMER, Mgr., Van Wert, O. G. W. BEERS, Secy. 1865 ESTABLISHED 1865 A. P. McCOSAIIAY, JEWELRY, WATCHES UIXSICAI, GOODS, gPECTACX.ES, CLOCKS, 8ILVEKWABE, Etc Opposite Court House, - Main St AUCTIONEER! For a Pronouncinflr Dictionary contoinincr 32.000 words. KU pages. Helta xoc in euuiipo w ruut morion, mcaffo. ' Notice to Teachers r 'cmnrn'U (V our r ww J !f yu re in any way r WILL attend promptly to all business entrusted in my care. Will crv sales at the LOWEST rates. Give me a trial. Residence, Daisie, Van Wort county, O., eight miles west of Van Wert. Respectfully, J. K. KIRKLAXD. HEREAFTER, until further notice, teachers examinations will be held on the last Saturday of each month, and in the months of Alarcn, April, May, oepiemuer, wiooer ana November, additional examinations will be held on the second Saturday of each month. Sweet's School Methods. Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching, and Payne's Science and Art of Education hts recommended as textbooks In preparing for examination In theory and practice 01 teaching. All applicants must pay a fee of 50 cents, and unless personally known to the Board, must furnish certificates of good moral character. Examinations will open at 9 o'clock a. m., at bees send whicb hour each applicant is required to be Jjy oruer 01 tne rsoaru, M. II. TlTTLE, Secretary. present. interested in for Price List of Hives, Sections, Smokers, and Comb Foundations, Etc. Hives in the Flat very cheap. PriCO Lifit Free. Being manufacturers we can name you the lowest prices, SMITH & SMITH, Hardin Co. Kenton, Ohio. Notice to Contractors XTOTICE is hereby eiven that scaled nropos JLl als will be received at the office of the clerk of Union township. Van Wert county. Ohio, for the erection of a brick school house according to plans and specifications on file at said clerk'3 omce, up to Saturday Noon, May 81st, 1887. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Each bid must be accompauied with a sufficient euarantee so that a contract can be entcrea into. M. T. LEITXER, Clevk Union Township April 22-4w. while we have a desire to inform you when our doors will be thrown open and our goods ready for inspection, we are obliged to guess at the date only and promise that in our humble opinion that date will be SATURDAY, MAY 7TH. we cordially invite you to call at your convenience and compare our wares, styles, quality, prices and methods of doing busi- Respectfully, ness; ? 0 3 op No. 12 W, Ilain St., IIEsT CAYETT'S OLID ST-A-HSTZD. Cleveland police claim Dayton is the breeding place for crooks, and that Dayton police let them alone on condition that they go away to plun der. The trotting stallion Ambassador, which has been kept in Upper San dusky, and which has a record of 221, has been sold to Michigan parties for 118,000. j D. J. Stalter, editor of the Tiffin News, has purchased the Baptist church, at Tiffin. Price $3,500. He is the only editor in the State who owns a church. Nine babies were born on a B. & O. emigrant train between Bell aire and ML Vernon a few days ago. It seems that everybody wants to be known as a Buckeye. Since the discovery of gas at Bowl ins: ttreen tne excitea. . citizens are calling their town Booming Green. They may soon want to change it to Boiling Green. 7 C"1 Edward F. Cody, a night distributer in the Toledo post-office, was arrested for robbing the mails. . It is thought the Toledo Blade has lost two thous and dollars through him. C. D. Applemen was arrested the other day at Mansfield, for abducting a girl named Margaret Metcalf, aged 17, from Crestline. He has a wife and children in Loudenville. The gas well "Mad Anthony" at Fort Recovery gushes forth at the rate of two million cubit feet s day. More wells are to be sunk im mediately. Cincinnati parties have invested $150,000 in real estate already. Two tank builders at Lima, named Sullivan and Wayne, were assailed by roughs with razors last Saturday night and badly cut The trouble arose in a quarrel in the Academy of Music during an entert ainemefit. , W. B. Copus, a New York, Penn sylvania & Ohio brakeman, fell "be neath a wild East-bound freight and was cut in two, last Saturday at Marion, Ohio. Deceased was twenty- one years old, single, and a resident of Galion. Anton Eberly, aged 73, and living eight, miles from Upper Sandusky hung himself last Friday with a clothes-line. He had been a resident for over forty years and always great ly respected. Temporary insanity was the cause. Within half an hour after the gas well at Arcanum, u., was Bnot on Tuesday there was a pressure of eighty-four pounds. Several thous and people from Greenville, Rich mond, Dayton, and Piqua witnessed the shooting of the well. At Lafayette, the 6 year old son of Wm. Hnllibarger accidentally shot the 4 year old son of James Hoye with a 38 caliber self acting bull dog revolver, the ball entering the left side below the heart. The old folks were taking a walk over the farm at the time. J. F. Connell was dangerously cut in a saloon scrap at Lima last Satur day evening, while in attendance at a vaudeville performance at the Acad emy of Music- Harry Williams who made the assault was arrested, fined, and given 24 hours in which to leave the town. D. M. Arthur, a farmer living four miles due north from Wapakoneia, and about two miles south-west of Cridersville, in Auglaize county, dropped dead yesterday, from dropsy of the heart Mr. Arthur was about 80 years of age, and was one of the old settlers of that county. Another railroad project Is pointing in the direction of north-western Ohio, and a few of our citizens profess to know more than they seem willing to communicate on the subject. The pro jected road starts at Columbus and toucnes Lama, uenance ana inence in to Michienn. It is probably the old White project revived. Defiance is said to be taking an active interest in the matter and will make liberal sub scriptions to secure the road. Bryan Democrat. Last Saturday night as John Kirke an employe in the L. E. & W. shops. of this city was passing along North street a short distance east of the An thony Block, he was stoppod by a man who demanded his money. Upon his refusal to hand over his money he was struck a terrific blow in the back of the head and felled to the ground, when his assailant began beating him and kicking him in the head. When he fell two accomplices ran up and were about to help finish the job, when John, who had not lost consciousness, called for help. Two colored men who were passing on Tanner street, heard the cry for help, and ran over toward the scene of the struggle and the assailants, frightened, ran away. They did not succeed in getting any or jonn's money but carried away his hat for their booty. Lima Times of Monday. The Lima Times of Monday gives the following account of a most distressing accident: One of the saddest circumstances that has occured in the history of Allen county was that of 1, , -1 i i i i tx li me calamity wmcn Deiei namnn Miller, of Amanda township, Saturday evening. Mr. Miller, who is a son of Joseph Miller, add a brother of 'Squire A. D. Miller, of 'Amanda township, had been with his wife and small child visiting some friends Saturday, and late in the afternoon started for home in a buggy drawn by two horses. On their way it was necessary to cross the Auglaize river. Upon the road they were travelling had formerly been a bridge over the river, at a point known as Hartford crossing, but some tune ago a farmer living near by, while burning brusn, allowed his fire to extend too close to the bridge and it burned down. There was another bridge about a mile and a quarter from this point, but Mr. Miller thought to gain time by FOBDING THE BTVSB . which, owing to recent rams, was bank full, and was not less than ten feet deep in the center. - Mr. Miller was induced to make the attempt to ford the river by seeing, leading into the water, the tracks made iby a heavy wagon the driver of which had forded the same stream during tne day. It was afterwards learned that it was only with difficulty that this team got through, and then it was by the horses swimming the river. . When Millers horses got into the deep water they floundered, and the buggy was overturned throwing all tne occupants into tne water, miner, who could not swim, clung to the buggy and kept himself above water, but his wife and child Mrs. M. Johnson is on the sick list. PatCullenhas the Stamm building '. again enclosed. Jos. Redrup visited his old neighbors ' the past week. Vnele Billy has returned from a trip towards sunrise. L. H. Murlin, of Ft. Wayne, was In ' " town this week. Abe Pettit moved his country resi- dence last Monday. The weather is still cold but the far- - mer still plows in hope. J. L. MeClure, and D. Baxter & Co., . are sporting new babies. y Communion services next Sunday morning at the Lutheran church. Frank Temple will locate in the building vacated by F. O. Current. -' There are sundry wedding rumors afloat but they don't seem to material ize. . ..; - C. H. CI ess has purchased the old Baptist church andwill turn it into a , gristmill. -t Our Baptist friends will this summer erect a place of worship where the sin ners are the thickest. Tully township's Board of Education will meet to-morrow, Saturday, at Oaa ; Clerk's office at 1 p. m. : A. Mollenkopf and S. H. Rhamsy - attended the I. O. O. F. meeting at Van Wert last Tuesday. W. F. Johnson has purchased the W. S. Stroup property and will enlarge and improve it for a residence. "No man that has ever written a book will ever be President,'' may be written on the 'political tomb of J. B. Blaine. Fred Current skipped between two days, to his new place of business, the store lately occupied by Bishop Bros., which he has thoroughly rejuvenated with paint and adamantine. ' .' Our new council was installed last Monday night and the new Mayor inaugurated, and now they will resolve that the. sidewalks are out of repair. '. order them to be fixed, but that. won't fix them. ' i nnii.EPonrr items. . WEST TO THE BOTTOM and were drowned. The agonized father could do nothing to save them, Ed Moorman, who happened by, rescued the body of Mrs. Miller, but she was quite dead. The little child sank into its watery grave, and its body has not yet been recovered. Miller himself could not get out of the water. He clambered upon the buggy and there was compelled to remain until assistance came to rescue him from his perilous position. Ihe agony which this man must have endured, seeing his wife and child drown be- :ore his very eyes andmmseii utter-y powerless to help or save them, was worse than a thousand deaths. The team were drowned about the center of the river. It is somewhat strange that they did not swim ashore, but they probably became entangled in tne narness in sucn a way as to impede their movements. Miller is a man about 25 years of age, and lives at Amanda Center, this wnn-n TTin wifo was a danerhter of Isaac Harter, of Amanda. They had been married about three years ana the drowned child was their only one. OUTRAGED AMD KILLED. A Cleveland. Domestic Meets witb an Awful Death X be Murderer llnkncwn. Cleveland, Ohio, April 25. Just before 12 o'clock on Saturday night the family of C. D. Hatch, of 355 Sib- ey street, were startled by bearing oud shrieks for help, and upon in vestigating the body of a young woman was found lying under a porch in the rear of the premises, ine victim was Maggie McCarthy, a domestic in the employ of Wm M. Smith, living on Cass street, about 100 feet from where the girl was killed. A post mortem examination showed that she had been choked to death and outraged. - The last seen of the girl was wnen she alighted alone from the Prospect street cars at 1:50 Saturday night, and started in the direction of home. Mr. Hatch states that he saw a man run out of the yard, but could not decribe him The young lady was 21 years old. rather pretty, and bore n 5 11 an unearned reputation. Suspending tne Snort Haul Rule. Chicago Tribune. The Inter-State Commerce Com mission cannot do better than follow the European practice of releasing the short-haul rule only in rare in stances. Following the practice of France, Germany, Belgium and En gland it would seem that exemptions might be made in favor oftrans-continental traffic, and perhaps also where there is Canadian competition, but that beyond this great caution should be used in suspending the rule. The rule itself is a inst and proper part of a national railroad law, and the responsibility for its equitable ad Mr. Tabern living a few miles south of Ada made our little city a pleasant call last week. Mrs. W. F. Hufford, Mrs. McHesser and Ella Kershaw made a short visit to Van Wert this week. Mr. Bouch an old student of the Normal came np from FJida to attend society and visit former associates. J. L. Hetrick, alias "Plus," spent . Sunday with the boys of the Normal and also to look after "Biz" Interests. Our Literary Society has been keep ing np in its entertainments and quite a number from a distance have been attending. The. preparation for the entertain ment at the close of the term have commenced and the faculty expect to present the very best program possible. . ' Some of the students have started a -. subscription to procure funds for stage ' fixtures. This gives better opportuni ties to present different performances : to better advantage. The indications are the Normal is established, bound to win and become - an institution that will bring to bear a great influence on this part of the - country, uur citizens are aueaay reaping the benefits that an institution of tnis character is oouna to bring arouna it. It needs only the encouragement from persons interested in its growth to make it progressive. Condition o( the Treasury ' Philadelphia Record. Another call of $10,000,000 ot the 3 Ser cent bonds is anticipated in a few ays. There will then remain a little less than $10,000,000 of theso bonds, to be called for redemption. Of the remaining 3 per cents $16,491900 is held by the Treasury as security for national bank issues; only $7UUU of these hpnds are in foreign hands. Next month the final call of the 3 per cents will be made, and there will then be no more bonds which the Government can redeem until 1891, when the 4 J per cents will fall due. In this situation a rapid accumula tion of surplus in the Treasury may be expected after the close ol the fiscal year, on June 30 next, unless measures shall be taken to prevent it. The Indigent Pension bill, the Blair Educational bill and the River and Harbor bill, had they become laws, would have relieved the Treasury of embarrassment on this score. But until Congress shall meet in December the only course open to the Secre tary of the Treasury for keeping down surplus accumulations will be to go into the marxet and purcnase bonds not yet due at such premiums as they may command. This would be better than an extra session of Congress, in which the Treasury surplus might or might not be reduced. vvnen tne r iitietn vjongress snaii meet, whether in extra session or next December, the opponents ot revenue reform will take advantage of the financial situation to press for a repeal of the internal taxes on whisky and tobacco. While this would unques- iustment and enforcement belongs to the lnter-btate commerce Lxmmis- tionably deplete the Treasury of the sion. It should be suspended only m 8urplus, it would afford small relief the exceptional cases where the best to industrial interests of -the interests oi couuuuroo iwjiuib buuu i country. As a nscal measure a repeal action, and where a cast-iron, inflexi- 0 he voluntary taxes on drink and ble rule would be a hardship both to shippers and carriers. With due allowance for such rare cases, the Commission should bend its best energies toward the faithful enforce ment of the snort-naul rule. A farmer in Greensborough, Md., thinking to change his grade of potatoes, barreled all that he had, shipped them to Baltimore and ordered a few barrels of extra fine Northern potatoes for Beed. While barreling his own tubers he lost his spectacles. When he received his Northern seed pota toes he found his missing spectacles in one of the barrels. Such things destroy confidence. "Ten dollars fine for contempt of court," thundered the judge. "What do you think of that ?" "Better make it twentv." he replied, "that amount of contempt ought never to go for $10." smoke while maintaining heavy burdens of taxation on the raw materials of production and on the necessaries of the family would be atrocious. A repeal of the duties on raw materials, such as wool, hemp, jute, lumber, iron ore and coal, while a substantial reduction of the excessive duties on articles of necessity, would at once relieve the public Treasury of its em barrassment, stimulate manufactures and commerce, and promote the welfare of the working masses.Ex-Secretary Manning showed in his last report that the removal of the duties on wool alone would conduce more to the country's interests than would the repeal of the whole internal reve nue system, let in order to preserve the taxes on labor and production the Kelleys and Randalls will goto the next Congress and insist on a repeal of the voluntary taxes which men pay for tneir drum and smoKe. - i

ttt The Van Wert Printing Company. One column, one year $100 00 One-half column, one year SO 00 One-quarter column, one year 30 00 One-eighth column, one year IS 00 LEGAL NOTICES. One square, first insertion $1 00 Each subsequent insertion : SO Nine lines of nonpareil type constitute a square Executor and Administrator's Notices, III " . advance - S 00 This Times in devoted to the advancement of Democratic principles, and to the general and local news. - OFFICE: First Floor, No. 1 (South Washington Street. Terms of Subscription. One year, strictly in advance $1 50 Six months T5 Three months . 50 v. JOB PRINTING Of every description executed in the best style, promptly and on reasonable terms. LOCAL NOTICES. (In Minion type), ten cents per line each insertion. . , VOL 21. VAN WERT, OHIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1887. NO. 3R. .t EAL ESTATE FOR SALE. MONEY TO LOAN NO DEL&T. CALL ON B. PARKER. SIDLES RESTAURANT AT THE OLD STAND, South Washington St ., Tan Wert NEW IB OPPOSITE POST OFFICE. I HAVE money curity, in funds of : to loan, on real estate se- from 1200 to 15000. No.Sil. Residence property in Van Wert situated in a good neighborhood, only two squares from center of town. Price H00. Terms one-half cash and balance in one and two years. No. 202. OA ACRES of land; 1 miles from Scott, on UU the C, J. JH. itv. i-riee fizuu, wun one third cash and balance in 1 and 2 years, or win exchange for property in Van Wert. Call soon for a bargain. No. 513. FOR SALE FOR A SnORT TIME. rt A f :res of line imnroved land ioinine the I UU corporation of Van Wert can be had at a bargain if taken soon. . . No. 515. FINE residence property well located in Van Wert., Will exchange for land or sell cheap for cash. ' No.512. A i ACRES of land, partly improved, and bal-TtU ance in fine timber, situated Hi miles from -C., J. & M. Ry. Price $800. Terms easy or wiH exchange for property in Van Wert or for other town property. No. 514. FINE vacant lot centerallv located in Van Wert. Price for 10 days $350, all cash. No. 320. npk ACRES of land, nearly all cleared, joining Ol the coporation of Van Wert. Will sell cheap. Call at office for particulars. No. 422. WILL BE OPENED ON THURSDAY, HARCII 24. It will be better fiimihfl mid better adapted to the wants of the trade, both town and country, than STAPLE AND FANCY To the Public in General, Ladies in Particulars WARM MEALS AND LUNCH! at All Honrs. Special Care will be taken to accommodate Farmers. MONEY TO LOAN ! On Improved Farms for a term of Years Highest For particulars call on or address SPITKR A CO., BARKERS. TOLEDO, OHIO. s All New and Well Selected. Market Price Produce. Paid for 1 Hfi ACRES of land in Union township, Van J DU Wert county, Ohio. Land can lie easily cleared and divided up into 20 acre tracts with TX2wX2 T A TVr,iTi, Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Ry. Schedule in effect January 30, 1887. . Trains depart from V an Wert Station, We will sell goods as cheap as you can get them for at any other place, because we are bound to build up a trade. ' First-Class Dry Goods and Notion Souse road to each. Situated 6 miles from an w ert in good neighborhood one-half mile from rail road. Price $25 per acre, terms reasonable. No. 600. Orv "ACRES, situated only 29 miles from QJ - Van Wert, O. This is a line Improved farm with 65 acres under cultivation and balance in woods-pasture; well fenced and un-derdrained; good outlets for tile draining; story frame house of 8 rooms, conveniently ar ranged and in good repair; fp.ir out-buildings; Toune bearinE orchard of 90 apple trees, also- a number of pear, cherry and other fruit trees; rood wason road on the north: eood neighbor hood; mile from school. Price $4000, with 11500 cash and balance in 1, 2 and 8 years. No. 505. 1-f V ACRES in Van Wert county. Ohio, 4 L V miles from Cavett and 8 miles from Van Wert, the county seat. This farm has 80 acres under cultivation and balance is timber, all un-derbrushed except 10 acres, all well fenced; creek crosses one corner of farm ; good outlet for ditches; about 600 rods of underdraining; will put 800 rods of tile in ground this spring (1887); hewed-log house, weather-boarded, of 7 rooms; hewed-log barn with sheds on sides and room for 10 head of horses and hay; smoke house, milk house, wood house and other out buildings; 2 good wells of water with pumps; young orchard of 50 trees, also 20 old trees now bearing; convenient to school and churches; food roads on north ana east lines, l rice $uuu 'arms 11000 cash and balance in easy payments, - Or will sell 40 acres, all cleared, containing the buildings, for $1800. Or, will exchange the whole farm on a cash basis for 80 acres, situated from 4 to 6 miles from Van Wert. No. 505. '- Q f ACRES, in Union township, Van Wert O J county, Ohio, has 40 acres under cultiva- I tion and underdrained with tile. The entire 80 Is fenced. It has a 1V story log house, log stable, fine well of water and some fruit. This farm has a good wagon road on the south and the C, J. & M. Ry. on the east; is mile from school and only 3 miles from Van Wert, the county seat. Price, 93,800. with f 1,000 casn Dai-ance in 1, and 8 years Interest 8 per cent. NO. 841 Is a desirable residence property, situated al most within a stone's throw of the court house in Van Wert, and needs to be seen to be appreciated. The house contains eieht rooms, con veniently arranged, summer kitchen and wood house: fine well and cistern water in abun dance. The lot also contains a choice variety of fruit. It has a good brick walk and fine shade trees in front, an alley on side and in the rear. Price, $1,400. $700 cash and balance in 1 - and 2 years with interest at 6 per cent. : . J. B. PARKER, ' VAN WEBT, 0. on Central (90th Meridian) time, which twenty-two minutes slower than Van Wert time, as follows : GOING WEST. Is COME and SEE US Mail Accommodation . Express Local 11 16 AH 5 45 PM 12 24 AM 11 16 AM GOING EAST. Mail Express Fast Line ...... Express Local 3 13 PM 8 10 AM 8 51 PM T 2 36 AM 11 16 AM Daily. Daily except Sunday. Pullman Palace Sleeping and Hotel Cars at- tatched to through trains run without extra charge, west-bound to Chicago; east-bound to nttsDurgn, uarriBDurg, .Baltimore, Washington. Philadelphia and New York. For time-tables, rates of fare, through ticKetb and baggage checks and further information regarding the running of trains, applv to dUli-IN VAS .LilCW, Ticket Aeent. Van Wert. Ohio. JAMES MoCREA. E. A. FORD. uen'i manager. uen. rass. ana xiCK't Agt. PITTSBURGH, PA. TIME 1 A TTT iTi, Cincinnati, Jackson & Mm Ry, . in enect juarcn iu, ami. Central Standard Time, 22 minutes slower than van Wert time. ALLEN & V1SMAN O AIL 2 Call and see the quality sold ALL SCREENED BEFORE DELIVERY. LOWEST MARKET PRICE. GOING SOUTH. No. 3 No. 1 " ' " " P. M. A. M. Cecil , 2 40 Paulding.... 3 02 '. Latty S 12 ...... ..... Van Wert ..... 3 45 5 00..... Shanes Crossing . . 4 30 5 36 .... . Celina 4 86 6 08 ..... Greenville .v. .........;... 6 20 7 16 Manchester 7 06 7 50 West Alexandria . . 7 60 8 85 Yard corner Jackson and Market streets. GEO. W. BEERS. GOING NORTH. NO. 2 Cecil ....... Pauldine Latty van wert.. Shanes Crossing . . Celina Greenville Manchester West Alexandria . No. 4 P. M 1 23 12 55 12 42 11 25 10 801 10 05 8 28 7 35 6 40l P. M. 9 50 9 15 8 54 7 27 6 49 6 00' Remember that KUPKIGHT BROS. . is the place to buy your SBOTTllE PHYSICIANS. T. HAWKINS, M. . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office at the old place over McKim & Co's. store formerly the office of Drs. Christopher & ilan-Una Van Wert. Ohio. Will respond promptly to all professional calls. Office hours from 7 to 11 in the forenoon and from 1 to 4 In the afternoon. Residence, 47 South Washington street. Dec. 3, 1886. W. H. CHBISTOPHMt. G. J. EBLEN. I Dra. CHRISTOPHER EBLEN TVWVRTCTANS AND SURGEONS. Office. JT Cahn's new building, opposite the Court House, van wert, unio. Pmmnt uttftntlnn inven io all calls. Special Office days fo. treatment, of Eye and Ear Diseases will be Tuesdays and Saturdays. Dr. Christopher's residence, 82 South Washington street. Dr. Eblen's residence. South street, near Union school building. CEO. W. HcGATBEK, M. ., TT-rtrrsiCIAN AND SURGEON. Disea J: women and diseases or nose and throat a specialty. Office hours for treatment of above - diseases. 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. W eanesaays ana Sntnrdavs. Office over No.2North Washil street. Residence 22 Jeffersoi H. R. JOHNSTON. Gen. Pass. Ant. J. M. C. MARBLE, Pres. and Gen. Man. DHO 13 UNACQUAINTED WITH THH GEOGRAPHY OF TMS COUNTRY WILL SEE BY EXAMINING THIS MAP THAT THB 3B3&E We also pay the HIGHEST CASH PniCE FOR CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAKD & PACIFIC RAILWAY GOOD TIMOTHY HAY You will do well to give us a call RUPRIGHT BROS. ngton t. May 22-ly. WH. N. LOSdSnOBTH, H. . "OHYSICI AN AND SURGEON, has resumed JL the practice of medieine. All calls prompt ly attended to. Office, Convoy, u. junes-ta ATTORNEYS. . . . CLEH. V. UOKE. A TTORNEY-AT-LAW. VAN WERT. O. . Office with Alexander & Darnell. Does a general Law and Notary business. . Prompt at tention given to conveyancing and ma&ing aD- stracts oi tinea. jlcc. a, 1000. HA1.TCUABKB K GLENN. A TTORNETS-AT-LAW. VAN WERT. O. X3u Practice in the courts of Van Wert coun-tv. Onllections nromntlv made and remitted. Partition, probate and litigated business solic ited, conveyance done at reasoname rates. ji- flee on McCurdy's corner. Sept. 19-79. A HORACE O. HICHIB. TTORNEY-AT-LAW, VAN WERT, O., umce over tx. v w oiney 's store. W.J. BEERS. A TTORNEY-AT-LAW, VAN WERT, O., r will nromntlv attend to all business en trusted to his care, in Van Wert and other counties. Office above Clark & Son's shoe store, In Arcade Block. ALEXANDER A DABHBLL. A TTORNEYS-AT-LAW. VAN WERT. O.. Office in Van Wert County Bank building. Particular attention given to making col lections. BARBERS. J. A. Baib. J. J. Ehresman. BAIB 4t EHHEBHAK, TTJOPULAR BARBERS AND HAIR DRESS- I era. For a smooth shave or a neat hair cut, give us a call. 2d door south of Pittsburg depot, on n asmngion street. D. C0LIIN8. Wm. Perbt. COLLINS PERRY. tPASHIONABLE BARBERS AND HAIR Dressers. First door north of McConahy's only true middle link In that transcontinental system -which invites and facilitates travel and traffic in either direction between tho Atlantio and Pacific. The Kortt island mam line ana orancnes memde Cnl- joiiec uttawa. L.aHaiie. feona. tieneseo. Hnllna ana kock xsiana. ua. uiuwis; vureapon, nnscaune. Washington, Fairfteld, Ottnmwa, OskalooBa, West Liberty. Iowa City, Des Moines, Indianola, Winterset, Atlantic, KnoxTille, Audubon, Harlantiuthrle Centre and Conned BluffStin Iowa; Gallatin, Trenton. Bt. Joseph. Cameron and Kansas City, in Missouri: Leavenworth and Atchison, m Kansas; AiDeniea, uuuieapoua and St. Paul, in Minnesota; Watertown. in Dakota, and nunareas or. lntermeaiate ciliu, wwju uu villages. The Great Rook Island Route (liMntntftM Kneed. Comfort and Safetv to those who travel over It. Its roadbed is thoroughly ballasted. Its tracK 13 OI neavy uvet-i. ib uriu$ea r boiiu Bbrucrarea rtf bmn .nil Imn. Tta rnllinir stock is Derfect as human kr-i i f.m mnirn ic ieou aiixneaaioiv aooiiances uui mechanical eenins has invented and experience proved valuable. 1X3 practical operation is conservative ana methodical its discipline strict and exacting. The lux ury ol its passenger accommodation is uneauaieu in the West unsurpassed in the world. All lxnress muu Decween iiiicuku mu ljiw jnissonn ITiver consist of Comfortable Day Coaches. magnhVent IMiiman roiace Y arior ana sieepmg ijara, eiegant Dining Cars providing excellent meals, and between Chicago. St. Josepn, Atcbuon aaaMWW vuy rase liecllmng Chair Cars. The Famous AiDert Lea Route Is the direct, favorite line between Chicacro and Minne apolis and St. Paul. Over this route solid Fast Express Trains run daily to the summer resorts, picturesque localities and hunting and fishing grounds of Iowa and Minnesota. The rich wheat fields and grazing lands of interior Dakota are reached via Watertown. A short, desirable route, via Seneca and Kankakee, offers budo- rior inducements to travelers between Cincinnati, In dianapolis, Lafayette ana council israiis, bt. josepn. Atcmson, Leavenwortn, Kansas ity, Minneapolis, be. Paul and intermediate points, ah classes or patrons, especially families, ladies and children, receive from officials and emnloves of Rock Island trains m-otection. respectiui courtesy ana Kinaiy treatment or riciceis. mans, r oiaers oonunauie as an nrmciDai Ticket Offices in the United States and Canada or any THE EDISON IMAL OPERATING WITH THE Baltimore At Ohio Xeleirrnpli Company, receive and tiansmit messoge to and from all points, at LOWEST KATES. Itag St WELCOME ! p NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. and the We kindly request you to call and see - that neither pains nor expense has been spared to make our advent among you all that the most exacting could expect. Our intention is to have you realize to the fullest extent that our establishment is a "We shall introduce all novelties as soton as they are shown in Metropolitan Cities, matters not be they European ordomestic. Our pride shall be to have always the cream of the markets, at Prices That will be Correct, while honest dealing shall be our first motive and characterize our every action. We will guarantee te every visitor that genuine courtesy which makes a customer feel at home when they enter a business house. We feel confident that you will be pleased with our methods of doing business, for our terms will be C3. to and no deviation. We shall have OH6 price in plain figures and no abatement to any one. Our facilities for doing business are not excelled by any firm in this country, belonging to a syndicate who purchase in very large quantities direct only from manufacturers and importers, and ever ready to avail ourselves of a good opportunity to secure reliable goods at low prices for cash, and thus being always in the market our stock will be fresh and clean and we shall have Bucyras lately voted down a City Hall proposition. The new Board of Trade at Lima has started off with 125 members. The Washington C. H. Council has unanimously passed a prohibitoryor-dinanca St Marys has drilled in the third big gas well It is on the Clarke farm one half mile south-east of town. Findlay's reference to Fostoria as "our enterprising suburb" must be intensely aggravating to the Hon. Charles Foster and other localboomers. Hamlin Miller Attempts to Ford the Auglaize River. His Wile and Child Drowsed and He Narrowly Escape. A WATERY GRAVE. CONVOY. Two Htriti Drowned lag Flood. in Ike Raff- n Sopiethipg jSlew Every Day. desired information, address. S. R. CABLE. E.ST. JOHN, CHICAGO. f. A. H0LBR00IL TRAVEL VIA Through Train mtth DMng Cora, Pullman Palact Sleep ing uars. Modern Coaches. Sure connections In Union Depots at its terminal points. with trains from and to the East West. North and South. Cheapest, Best and Quickest FiiTJiHii ; r Route from Chicago, Peoria LOUIS io or St i DENVER. SAN FRANCISCO, OMAHA, KANSAS CITY, CITY QF MEXICO, ST. PAUL. MINNEAPOLIS. PORTLAND, ORE. ST. JOSEPH, AIUHISON. For Tickets, Rates, Maps. Ac., apply to Ticket Agents of connecting lines, or address i.a.ruiiLtt, n.D.aiunc, isty.r. a.m. PAUL MORTON, u. r. a i. a. Van Wert office in Melsheimer Drug Store. All patrons will receive prompt attention, and with strict con- ndence. L. MELSHEIMER, Mgr., Van Wert, O. G. W. BEERS, Secy. 1865 ESTABLISHED 1865 A. P. McCOSAIIAY, JEWELRY, WATCHES UIXSICAI, GOODS, gPECTACX.ES, CLOCKS, 8ILVEKWABE, Etc Opposite Court House, - Main St AUCTIONEER! For a Pronouncinflr Dictionary contoinincr 32.000 words. KU pages. Helta xoc in euuiipo w ruut morion, mcaffo. ' Notice to Teachers r 'cmnrn'U (V our r ww J !f yu re in any way r WILL attend promptly to all business entrusted in my care. Will crv sales at the LOWEST rates. Give me a trial. Residence, Daisie, Van Wort county, O., eight miles west of Van Wert. Respectfully, J. K. KIRKLAXD. HEREAFTER, until further notice, teachers examinations will be held on the last Saturday of each month, and in the months of Alarcn, April, May, oepiemuer, wiooer ana November, additional examinations will be held on the second Saturday of each month. Sweet's School Methods. Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching, and Payne's Science and Art of Education hts recommended as textbooks In preparing for examination In theory and practice 01 teaching. All applicants must pay a fee of 50 cents, and unless personally known to the Board, must furnish certificates of good moral character. Examinations will open at 9 o'clock a. m., at bees send whicb hour each applicant is required to be Jjy oruer 01 tne rsoaru, M. II. TlTTLE, Secretary. present. interested in for Price List of Hives, Sections, Smokers, and Comb Foundations, Etc. Hives in the Flat very cheap. PriCO Lifit Free. Being manufacturers we can name you the lowest prices, SMITH & SMITH, Hardin Co. Kenton, Ohio. Notice to Contractors XTOTICE is hereby eiven that scaled nropos JLl als will be received at the office of the clerk of Union township. Van Wert county. Ohio, for the erection of a brick school house according to plans and specifications on file at said clerk'3 omce, up to Saturday Noon, May 81st, 1887. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Each bid must be accompauied with a sufficient euarantee so that a contract can be entcrea into. M. T. LEITXER, Clevk Union Township April 22-4w. while we have a desire to inform you when our doors will be thrown open and our goods ready for inspection, we are obliged to guess at the date only and promise that in our humble opinion that date will be SATURDAY, MAY 7TH. we cordially invite you to call at your convenience and compare our wares, styles, quality, prices and methods of doing busi- Respectfully, ness; ? 0 3 op No. 12 W, Ilain St., IIEsT CAYETT'S OLID ST-A-HSTZD. Cleveland police claim Dayton is the breeding place for crooks, and that Dayton police let them alone on condition that they go away to plun der. The trotting stallion Ambassador, which has been kept in Upper San dusky, and which has a record of 221, has been sold to Michigan parties for 118,000. j D. J. Stalter, editor of the Tiffin News, has purchased the Baptist church, at Tiffin. Price $3,500. He is the only editor in the State who owns a church. Nine babies were born on a B. & O. emigrant train between Bell aire and ML Vernon a few days ago. It seems that everybody wants to be known as a Buckeye. Since the discovery of gas at Bowl ins: ttreen tne excitea. . citizens are calling their town Booming Green. They may soon want to change it to Boiling Green. 7 C"1 Edward F. Cody, a night distributer in the Toledo post-office, was arrested for robbing the mails. . It is thought the Toledo Blade has lost two thous and dollars through him. C. D. Applemen was arrested the other day at Mansfield, for abducting a girl named Margaret Metcalf, aged 17, from Crestline. He has a wife and children in Loudenville. The gas well "Mad Anthony" at Fort Recovery gushes forth at the rate of two million cubit feet s day. More wells are to be sunk im mediately. Cincinnati parties have invested $150,000 in real estate already. Two tank builders at Lima, named Sullivan and Wayne, were assailed by roughs with razors last Saturday night and badly cut The trouble arose in a quarrel in the Academy of Music during an entert ainemefit. , W. B. Copus, a New York, Penn sylvania & Ohio brakeman, fell "be neath a wild East-bound freight and was cut in two, last Saturday at Marion, Ohio. Deceased was twenty- one years old, single, and a resident of Galion. Anton Eberly, aged 73, and living eight, miles from Upper Sandusky hung himself last Friday with a clothes-line. He had been a resident for over forty years and always great ly respected. Temporary insanity was the cause. Within half an hour after the gas well at Arcanum, u., was Bnot on Tuesday there was a pressure of eighty-four pounds. Several thous and people from Greenville, Rich mond, Dayton, and Piqua witnessed the shooting of the well. At Lafayette, the 6 year old son of Wm. Hnllibarger accidentally shot the 4 year old son of James Hoye with a 38 caliber self acting bull dog revolver, the ball entering the left side below the heart. The old folks were taking a walk over the farm at the time. J. F. Connell was dangerously cut in a saloon scrap at Lima last Satur day evening, while in attendance at a vaudeville performance at the Acad emy of Music- Harry Williams who made the assault was arrested, fined, and given 24 hours in which to leave the town. D. M. Arthur, a farmer living four miles due north from Wapakoneia, and about two miles south-west of Cridersville, in Auglaize county, dropped dead yesterday, from dropsy of the heart Mr. Arthur was about 80 years of age, and was one of the old settlers of that county. Another railroad project Is pointing in the direction of north-western Ohio, and a few of our citizens profess to know more than they seem willing to communicate on the subject. The pro jected road starts at Columbus and toucnes Lama, uenance ana inence in to Michienn. It is probably the old White project revived. Defiance is said to be taking an active interest in the matter and will make liberal sub scriptions to secure the road. Bryan Democrat. Last Saturday night as John Kirke an employe in the L. E. & W. shops. of this city was passing along North street a short distance east of the An thony Block, he was stoppod by a man who demanded his money. Upon his refusal to hand over his money he was struck a terrific blow in the back of the head and felled to the ground, when his assailant began beating him and kicking him in the head. When he fell two accomplices ran up and were about to help finish the job, when John, who had not lost consciousness, called for help. Two colored men who were passing on Tanner street, heard the cry for help, and ran over toward the scene of the struggle and the assailants, frightened, ran away. They did not succeed in getting any or jonn's money but carried away his hat for their booty. Lima Times of Monday. The Lima Times of Monday gives the following account of a most distressing accident: One of the saddest circumstances that has occured in the history of Allen county was that of 1, , -1 i i i i tx li me calamity wmcn Deiei namnn Miller, of Amanda township, Saturday evening. Mr. Miller, who is a son of Joseph Miller, add a brother of 'Squire A. D. Miller, of 'Amanda township, had been with his wife and small child visiting some friends Saturday, and late in the afternoon started for home in a buggy drawn by two horses. On their way it was necessary to cross the Auglaize river. Upon the road they were travelling had formerly been a bridge over the river, at a point known as Hartford crossing, but some tune ago a farmer living near by, while burning brusn, allowed his fire to extend too close to the bridge and it burned down. There was another bridge about a mile and a quarter from this point, but Mr. Miller thought to gain time by FOBDING THE BTVSB . which, owing to recent rams, was bank full, and was not less than ten feet deep in the center. - Mr. Miller was induced to make the attempt to ford the river by seeing, leading into the water, the tracks made iby a heavy wagon the driver of which had forded the same stream during tne day. It was afterwards learned that it was only with difficulty that this team got through, and then it was by the horses swimming the river. . When Millers horses got into the deep water they floundered, and the buggy was overturned throwing all tne occupants into tne water, miner, who could not swim, clung to the buggy and kept himself above water, but his wife and child Mrs. M. Johnson is on the sick list. PatCullenhas the Stamm building '. again enclosed. Jos. Redrup visited his old neighbors ' the past week. Vnele Billy has returned from a trip towards sunrise. L. H. Murlin, of Ft. Wayne, was In ' " town this week. Abe Pettit moved his country resi- dence last Monday. The weather is still cold but the far- - mer still plows in hope. J. L. MeClure, and D. Baxter & Co., . are sporting new babies. y Communion services next Sunday morning at the Lutheran church. Frank Temple will locate in the building vacated by F. O. Current. -' There are sundry wedding rumors afloat but they don't seem to material ize. . ..; - C. H. CI ess has purchased the old Baptist church andwill turn it into a , gristmill. -t Our Baptist friends will this summer erect a place of worship where the sin ners are the thickest. Tully township's Board of Education will meet to-morrow, Saturday, at Oaa ; Clerk's office at 1 p. m. : A. Mollenkopf and S. H. Rhamsy - attended the I. O. O. F. meeting at Van Wert last Tuesday. W. F. Johnson has purchased the W. S. Stroup property and will enlarge and improve it for a residence. "No man that has ever written a book will ever be President,'' may be written on the 'political tomb of J. B. Blaine. Fred Current skipped between two days, to his new place of business, the store lately occupied by Bishop Bros., which he has thoroughly rejuvenated with paint and adamantine. ' .' Our new council was installed last Monday night and the new Mayor inaugurated, and now they will resolve that the. sidewalks are out of repair. '. order them to be fixed, but that. won't fix them. ' i nnii.EPonrr items. . WEST TO THE BOTTOM and were drowned. The agonized father could do nothing to save them, Ed Moorman, who happened by, rescued the body of Mrs. Miller, but she was quite dead. The little child sank into its watery grave, and its body has not yet been recovered. Miller himself could not get out of the water. He clambered upon the buggy and there was compelled to remain until assistance came to rescue him from his perilous position. Ihe agony which this man must have endured, seeing his wife and child drown be- :ore his very eyes andmmseii utter-y powerless to help or save them, was worse than a thousand deaths. The team were drowned about the center of the river. It is somewhat strange that they did not swim ashore, but they probably became entangled in tne narness in sucn a way as to impede their movements. Miller is a man about 25 years of age, and lives at Amanda Center, this wnn-n TTin wifo was a danerhter of Isaac Harter, of Amanda. They had been married about three years ana the drowned child was their only one. OUTRAGED AMD KILLED. A Cleveland. Domestic Meets witb an Awful Death X be Murderer llnkncwn. Cleveland, Ohio, April 25. Just before 12 o'clock on Saturday night the family of C. D. Hatch, of 355 Sib- ey street, were startled by bearing oud shrieks for help, and upon in vestigating the body of a young woman was found lying under a porch in the rear of the premises, ine victim was Maggie McCarthy, a domestic in the employ of Wm M. Smith, living on Cass street, about 100 feet from where the girl was killed. A post mortem examination showed that she had been choked to death and outraged. - The last seen of the girl was wnen she alighted alone from the Prospect street cars at 1:50 Saturday night, and started in the direction of home. Mr. Hatch states that he saw a man run out of the yard, but could not decribe him The young lady was 21 years old. rather pretty, and bore n 5 11 an unearned reputation. Suspending tne Snort Haul Rule. Chicago Tribune. The Inter-State Commerce Com mission cannot do better than follow the European practice of releasing the short-haul rule only in rare in stances. Following the practice of France, Germany, Belgium and En gland it would seem that exemptions might be made in favor oftrans-continental traffic, and perhaps also where there is Canadian competition, but that beyond this great caution should be used in suspending the rule. The rule itself is a inst and proper part of a national railroad law, and the responsibility for its equitable ad Mr. Tabern living a few miles south of Ada made our little city a pleasant call last week. Mrs. W. F. Hufford, Mrs. McHesser and Ella Kershaw made a short visit to Van Wert this week. Mr. Bouch an old student of the Normal came np from FJida to attend society and visit former associates. J. L. Hetrick, alias "Plus," spent . Sunday with the boys of the Normal and also to look after "Biz" Interests. Our Literary Society has been keep ing np in its entertainments and quite a number from a distance have been attending. The. preparation for the entertain ment at the close of the term have commenced and the faculty expect to present the very best program possible. . ' Some of the students have started a -. subscription to procure funds for stage ' fixtures. This gives better opportuni ties to present different performances : to better advantage. The indications are the Normal is established, bound to win and become - an institution that will bring to bear a great influence on this part of the - country, uur citizens are aueaay reaping the benefits that an institution of tnis character is oouna to bring arouna it. It needs only the encouragement from persons interested in its growth to make it progressive. Condition o( the Treasury ' Philadelphia Record. Another call of $10,000,000 ot the 3 Ser cent bonds is anticipated in a few ays. There will then remain a little less than $10,000,000 of theso bonds, to be called for redemption. Of the remaining 3 per cents $16,491900 is held by the Treasury as security for national bank issues; only $7UUU of these hpnds are in foreign hands. Next month the final call of the 3 per cents will be made, and there will then be no more bonds which the Government can redeem until 1891, when the 4 J per cents will fall due. In this situation a rapid accumula tion of surplus in the Treasury may be expected after the close ol the fiscal year, on June 30 next, unless measures shall be taken to prevent it. The Indigent Pension bill, the Blair Educational bill and the River and Harbor bill, had they become laws, would have relieved the Treasury of embarrassment on this score. But until Congress shall meet in December the only course open to the Secre tary of the Treasury for keeping down surplus accumulations will be to go into the marxet and purcnase bonds not yet due at such premiums as they may command. This would be better than an extra session of Congress, in which the Treasury surplus might or might not be reduced. vvnen tne r iitietn vjongress snaii meet, whether in extra session or next December, the opponents ot revenue reform will take advantage of the financial situation to press for a repeal of the internal taxes on whisky and tobacco. While this would unques- iustment and enforcement belongs to the lnter-btate commerce Lxmmis- tionably deplete the Treasury of the sion. It should be suspended only m 8urplus, it would afford small relief the exceptional cases where the best to industrial interests of -the interests oi couuuuroo iwjiuib buuu i country. As a nscal measure a repeal action, and where a cast-iron, inflexi- 0 he voluntary taxes on drink and ble rule would be a hardship both to shippers and carriers. With due allowance for such rare cases, the Commission should bend its best energies toward the faithful enforce ment of the snort-naul rule. A farmer in Greensborough, Md., thinking to change his grade of potatoes, barreled all that he had, shipped them to Baltimore and ordered a few barrels of extra fine Northern potatoes for Beed. While barreling his own tubers he lost his spectacles. When he received his Northern seed pota toes he found his missing spectacles in one of the barrels. Such things destroy confidence. "Ten dollars fine for contempt of court," thundered the judge. "What do you think of that ?" "Better make it twentv." he replied, "that amount of contempt ought never to go for $10." smoke while maintaining heavy burdens of taxation on the raw materials of production and on the necessaries of the family would be atrocious. A repeal of the duties on raw materials, such as wool, hemp, jute, lumber, iron ore and coal, while a substantial reduction of the excessive duties on articles of necessity, would at once relieve the public Treasury of its em barrassment, stimulate manufactures and commerce, and promote the welfare of the working masses.Ex-Secretary Manning showed in his last report that the removal of the duties on wool alone would conduce more to the country's interests than would the repeal of the whole internal reve nue system, let in order to preserve the taxes on labor and production the Kelleys and Randalls will goto the next Congress and insist on a repeal of the voluntary taxes which men pay for tneir drum and smoKe. - i